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Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-15 15:33:58
    > From: Nick Hilliard <nick(_at_)inex(_dot_)ie>

    > 12 computing environments, all of which are out of date by at least
    > 3 years, and you can only afford one week every year for managing
    > updates - which is enough time to update exactly one installation.
    > ...
    > Please excuse my naivety.  I'm new around here.

If there's any activity more boring, and less truly productive, than
updating to the latest rev of a software environment, I'd like to know
what it is.

I have a long list of things that seem to me like a better use of my time,
including:

- working on new networking architectures
- going for a walk with my dogs
- studying woodblock prints to update the online catalog raisonnes I'm
        working on for a couple of major Japanese woodblock artists
- listening to music (baroque, jazz, etc, etc)
- etc, etc, etc, etc.

Somehow I doubt that on their deathbed (to paraphrase an old aphorism)
anyone's going to be saying 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more of my time in this
realm installing Service Pack 7 of Microsloth Defenstrator'.

<Stomps off.>

        Noel
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